GBH staff shared some of the treasures they have tucked away in their homes

A new film from Bill Lichtenstein WBCN and The American Revolution reveals that Boston was as influential a driver of the music and countercultural scene, antiwar activism, civil rights struggles and the emerging women’s and LGBTQ+ liberation movements.

Eyes on the Prize, the landmark 1987 documentary that tells the riveting story of the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of everyday Americans, is now available for streaming, thanks to a partnership between GBH WORLD and PBS.

On vacation in Key West in 1995, filmmaker Lynn Novick happened upon Ernest Hemingway’s house, preserved as a museum. “I saw the typewriter that he used to write Snows of Kilimanjaro and some of the objects that belonged to him.” She’s wanted to make a film about him ever since.

Tucked away in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is a treasure trove of literary history. The Ernest Hemingway Collection, permanently housed on site, includes not only the writer’s priceless manuscripts but also his letters, notes, maps, bullfight tickets—anything on a piece of paper.

GBH exists to serve our community. And this month as we mark the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 state of emergency in the Commonwealth, it is fitting that we look back at a year like no other. I am happy to share our 2021 digital annual report, Reinventing Community. This annual report documents 2020, a year of GBH working to fulfill the needs we all have in common: to be heard and seen, to have a voice and to be connected.

NOVA pulls back the curtain in April on two shrouded topics: rampant gender discrimination in the sciences, especially for women of color, and the heartbreaks and hope experienced by people struggling with infertility. While the films expose deeply personal and harrowing issues, they each deliver a message about the power of knowledge.

Artificial intelligence (AI), which is being rapidly deployed and adopted, is producing some unexpected — and often harmful — results. "Coded Bias," the latest film from Shalini Kantayya, digs into how data discriminates. It also showcases the women leading the charge to change the applications of AI.

NOVA's "Forgotten Genius," produced in 2007, continues to have deep meaning for those who have learned from it and also those who created it. The film tells the story of Percy Julian, the grandson of Alabama slaves, who made discoveries that led to the development of medicines for arthritis and glaucoma, even as he was thwarted and sidelined at almost every turn.

Boston-based film producer William H. “Smitty” Smith has devoted his life to race amity, the enduring friendships between people of different races that have created profound, historic change. “Race relations in America won’t improve unless the public discourse and analysis of history moves beyond blame, grievance and rejection,” he says. It’s the topic of his new series, American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition, which premieres on GBH 2 on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “Race amity is the other American ‘tradition,’ along with racism,” he said.